Chapter 23 The Situation of Chang'an
Just when Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng first arrived in Dengzhou, a businessman with the fastest hands and feet finally sent the first batch of canned seafood to Chang'an safely for the market, but this guy is relatively dark, and the price of each bottle of canned food is set at 500 Wen, and his purchase price in Dengzhou is only 10 Wen, even if you add the freight on the road, it is only about 30 or 40 Wen at most, but this guy suddenly opened a higher price than ten times, and it is estimated that this guy is as black as a black chicken even his bones.
But even so, as soon as these novelty cans were listed, they immediately attracted countless people to rob, and the most important thing in Chang'an City is the rich people, not to mention the value of the seafood in this can, but also can be stored for a long time, and even the glass bottles outside alone, if sold in Chang'an alone, it is estimated that it is at least worth this price.
And with the spread of canned food, it even attracted the attention of the generals of the military department and Li Jing, because when marching and fighting, the preservation of meat has always been a big problem, if it is good in winter, but in the hot summer, only live livestock can be transported, which is not only time-consuming and laborious, but also may die on the road, ten sheep can be sent to the front line seven or eight is already good, and the appearance of canned food is to solve this problem.
So the black-hearted businessman was immediately recruited to the Ministry of War, and under the pressure of several fierce and vicious bosses, he explained the origin of the canned food, and when he heard that it was made by His Royal Highness the King of Qi, they finally breathed a sigh of relief, and just wanted to show Li Shimin, and then let him, the father, ask his son Li Su for the production method of canned food, but he didn't expect Li Yifu of the Patent Department to come to the door, and also brought Li Su to let Li Su register the patent for the canned food production method.
At the same time that Li Yifu went to the military department, Wang Zihao, who was instructed by Li Su, also took action. Divide Chang'an's glass factories into two, some of which are small and sophisticated, specializing in the production of high-end glass products, such as beautiful handicrafts or high-permeability lenses. Most of the other factories formed a new factory to produce canned food bottles and other cheap glass products, and recruited people around Chang'an, and when there were not enough people, they first used Silla slaves brought from Dengzhou. Anyway, in just half a month, a brand new large-scale glass factory was built and soon put into production.
Wait until this glass factory is built. Preparations were also made for the military cannery, which was jointly built by the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Industry, and production began as soon as the bottles of the glass factory arrived. At the same time, some wealthy families or businessmen in Chang'an also saw the business opportunities, and went to the patent office to obtain patents for canning production, and at the same time either personally or sent someone to visit Wang Zihao, who was just a businessman, and wanted to get orders for canned bottles from the glass factory, after all, although the scale of the glass factory is large, so many people want to open a canning factory, and it can't meet everyone's needs anyway.
Although all the people who visited the Wang family were from a lot of backgrounds, they were all respectful and respectful in the face of Wang Zihao, a businessman. Now everyone knows that Wang Zihao is Li Su's general agent in Chang'an. Whoever dares to be rude to Wang Zihao is rude to His Royal Highness King Qi, although Li Su is not in Chang'an now, but look at those top nobles and wealthy families in Chang'an, which one is not related to the interests of Qi Wangfu? Moving the King of Qi is equivalent to opposing the entire aristocratic class. This is not something that anyone can afford to bear.
For these people who come to visit, Wang Zihao is in business, whoever gives a higher price and more favorable conditions will deliver the goods to whom, there is no emotion to talk about, this practice makes many people praise him, of course. It also aroused the dissatisfaction of some people who were close to Li Su, such as Cheng Huailiang, Li Jingye and others who wanted to get the right to buy canned food bottles first, but were rejected by the smiling Wang Zihao.
However, for this kind of offending situation, Wang Zihao, who has already been polished in the business world, is naturally prepared, this time Li Su in addition to bringing instructions to expand the glass factory, there is also to cooperate with others, the production of cheap glass products factory more open, after all, now everyone recognizes the practical value of glass, and glass, a thing that makes people red, can not always be in their own hands, so it is also time for more people to participate.
It was under these circumstances that Wang Zihao refused all invitations today, and rushed to Li Ke's Wu Wangfu to visit with the canned food and overseas treasures that had just been shipped from Dengzhou.
"The grass people meet His Royal Highness King Wu!" Wang Zihao entered the main hall and saw Li Ke sitting in the hall, and immediately bowed down and saluted. He is Li Su's confidant, and Li Ke is Li Su's brother, so the two have often met before and are very familiar with each other.
"Hehe, Zihao, please, you are here, what are you doing with so many gifts?" Li Ke said with a smile, although canned food has begun to be produced in Chang'an, canned seafood sent from Dengzhou is still relatively rare, plus those overseas treasures, these gifts together are also rare gifts.
"Your Royal Highness, these gifts were specially sent by His Royal Highness King Qi, those treasures are nothing, but Princess Qi heard that King Wu and Princess Wu both like to taste seafood, so let the chef of King Qi's Mansion personally cook some seafood dishes and make canned food for His Royal Highness and Princess!" Wang Zihao replied very decently.
"Hahaha, I said how could Rokuro be so careful, it turned out to be a piece of kindness from my brother and daughter-in-law!" Li Ke laughed and said, although there were seafood in Chang'an in the past, most of them were pickled or dried goods, and the taste was not good. As soon as the canned seafood in Dengzhou arrived, Li Ke and his wife immediately liked these original canned seafood, so they wanted people to buy more, but unfortunately Dengzhou is far away from Chang'an, so there are not many things that can be bought.
Since it was Li Su's kindness, Li Su was not polite, let people accept the gift, and specially asked people to send the canned food to the princess, so that she could taste the seafood made by the chef of Qi Wangfu?
With Li Ke's cleverness, he naturally guessed that Wang Zihao would not deliberately come to him because of a gift, so he then smiled and said: "Zihao, you came to me today, but is there anything important?" ”
"Your Royal Highness, today the grass people do have something important to ask His Highness for help......" Wang Zihao bowed down again and said, and then told Li Su about his plan to cooperate with others to open a glass factory, and the reason why he came to Li Ke today is to ask Li Ke to help, and to gather Cheng Huailiang and Li Jingye Those who are interested in Li Ke, and then led by Li Ke, everyone will jointly invest in the shares, and open a few more glass factories, which will not only benefit everyone, but also relieve the pressure on the glass factory under Li Ke's name.
Hearing Wang Zihao's words, Li Ke clapped his hands and exclaimed: "Good! Rokuro is really a person who has the world in mind, and even took out such a huge thing as glass, if he is replaced by this king, he will definitely not have such great courage! ”
Hearing Li Ke's words of praising Li Su, Wang Zihao raised his eyebrows, and praised King Qi with the words of the world, didn't he say that King Qi wanted to be the emperor? As the elder brother of His Royal Highness, why did King Wu say this in front of himself, the confidant of King Qi, did he want to test his reaction?
Thinking of this, Wang Zihao couldn't help but be a little more vigilant secretly, and his face didn't show any abnormality. In fact, this is not to blame the prince for being so careful, although Li Ke is Li Su's own brother, but the so-called royal family has no family affection, let alone between princes who also have the right to inherit the throne? Coupled with the incident of the prince before, although Li Tai, the king of Wei, is dancing very happily now, but His Royal Highness the King of Qi also has great popularity, if there is really any change in the position of the prince in the future, then who can ascend to the position of the prince, this is really hard to say, and I am afraid that even His Majesty today can't tell.
Thinking of the prince's incident, Wang Zihao's heart moved, which could just be used to change the topic, and "Your Highness, I have already notified His Royal Highness King Qi of the last time the prince injured his legs and feet, but I don't know how the prince's injury is now?" ”
Li Chengqian in history was a lame, but after Li Su crossed over to the Tang Dynasty, he found that the other party's legs and feet were normal, which made him think that history was wrong. Li Chengqian went out hunting this spring, accidentally fell off his horse, and his leg bone was also gnawed off by the horse, and I heard that it was difficult to recover as before. Although not many people knew about this matter, he couldn't hide it from Li Ke, so he notified Wang Zihao and asked him to tell Li Ke.
"Well, the prince's matter is in trouble this time, I heard that even Imperial Doctor Sun is helpless about his injury, at most he can only let him walk, but it is estimated that he is likely to become lame." Although Li Ke looked heavy on the surface, a trace of joy flashed in his eyes, in fact, it was not only him, almost all adult princes were very excited about Li Chengqian's injury, after all, His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty could not let a cripple do it, as long as Li Chengqian was abolished, they all had the qualifications to compete for the throne.
Hearing Li Ke's words, Wang Zihao also became excited, the prince's injury last time was not very accurate, but now it has almost become a foregone conclusion. In this way, His Royal Highness King Qi's hope of ascending the throne has also greatly increased, it seems that he wants to pass on this news to His Royal Highness as soon as possible, but now His Royal Highness's attitude towards the throne is unknown, I don't know what he thinks?
The matter has been done, and Li Ke also promised to gather everyone on behalf of Li Su, so Wang Zihao hurriedly said goodbye, returned to the backyard of his home, wrote the information into a note, and then released the three flying slaves with the same note, and Yang Shihui, who was there in Dengzhou, received this information. The so-called flying slave is actually a pigeon, this method of transmitting information has been in the Qin and Han dynasties, and Wang Zihao has been using this method to transmit information to Li Su.
And just after Wang Zihao left, Li Ke in King Wu's mansion sat in the palace, without any movement for a long time, the expression on his face was cloudy, and he didn't know what he was thinking? (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )